Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks, sentence 9
A rabbit's eyes are high on the sides of its head, so it can see almost all the way round, with only a small blind spot in front of its nose.
Who acts: eyes, rabbit · What happens: be, see · To what, where: sides, way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 rabbit | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 high | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 high | cop |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 high | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sides | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 high | parataxis |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 all | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 way | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spot | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 spot | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 spot | amod |
| 28 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 spot | amod |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 front | case |
| 31 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spot | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 nose | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 nose | nmod:poss |
| 34 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 front | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 high | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a rabbit's eyes | the sides of rabbit's head | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | can | rabbit | all way | with a small blind spot in front of rabbit's nose; round property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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